What were Mussolini's reasons for invading abyssinia?

Answer 1

1. Italy lacked a large colonial empire.

2. Under the Treaty of Versailles, Italy was granted little land.

3. Italian economy was not in a good shape, A Colonial War would distract attention from this.

4. Abyssinia could be a useful market for Italian goods and was a good place to settle Italy's surplus population.

5. Above all, Mussolini glorified War, some suggest he wanted revenge for the defeat of 1896. 6. Basically Italy wanted to be a strong empire, like the Roman Empire

Answer 2

He considered himself to be the new Roman Ceasar and needed to establish a presence in Africa.

Answer

Italy held some territory in Africa as their colonies. Italy was one of the last nations who started settling colonies in Africa. The Brits, Dutch, French and other countries had settled there and established colonies.

Mussolini wanted to expand his borders and claimed the Mediterranean Sea as their sea, meaning he wanted Italy to have military control over that area.

Mussolini wanted to expand out of Eritea and he invaded Abysinnia. The Italian citizens felt this was justified as a revenge on the defeat of the Italian in 1896. Mussolini eventually merged Ethiopia, Eritrea and Italian Somaliland into one state; the Italian East Africa (AOI - Africa Orientale Italiana).

Answer 3

Mussolini invaded Ethiopia, because, first of all, he had grandiose ideas of building a "new Roman Empire," and being the new Julius Caesar. But, this was not the only reason for his invading the African country.The Italian colonies of Eritrea and Somalia were under constant raids from gangs in Ethiopia. So, being in support of Mussolini and Italy, the governments there asked Mussolini to address the problem. So, Mussolini asked the Ethiopian government to take care of the problem of the raids, but instead they did nothing about it (some believed that this was because the government took part in the raids as well). Thus, Mussolini invaded Ethiopia after giving a speech saying, "Ahora basta!" This meant "now it stops!" (referring to the raids of Eritrea and Somalia).

Answer 4

Mussolini used Italian Somaliland as a base for invading Ethiopia, just as he would later use Albania as a base for invading Greece. Also, Italy controlled Libya, and Italy had a very large and modern air force in the 1930's. Ethiopia was not out of reach for Mussolini.

The main base for the invasion was a small province, north-east of Ethiopia betwen it an the red sea. Italian Somaliland was a secondary base. The supreme General in Eritreea was first De Bono (general fron WWI) and in south, in Somalia general R. Graziani (he was under De bono's comand) then on the north front De Bono was changed with Gen. Badoglio. Italy attcked without warning or a war declaration. yes he had advance weapons but more important HE WON THE WAR BY USING CHIMICAL GAS, against the Geneva Convention the gas was Mustard. in the winterof 35' Mussolini's army almoust lost the war to the ethiopians but then he used the gas in a most cruel manor. This was a preview of the WWII.

Answer 5

1)to revenge his defeat in the battle of adwa.

2)to have colonizes in Africa like Britain and France.

Answer 6

The truth is that Mussolini and Hitler wanted the OIL in Abyssinia (Ethiopia). Very typical for a reason to invade a country.